My Hero

Chapter 14

"WHAT! You like Dylan?!" I pushed my hand to her ginormous mouth.

"SHHH! He is home you know!" I whisper-yelled as she rolled her eyes and removed my hand.  

"Tell him." I sighed.

"I don't want to ruin what we already have." I said. frowning.

"Oh."

"But don't you like Dylan?" She shook her head furiously.

"No no no no! I like Chandler." I nodded my head, knowing who that was. I got off my bed, phone in hand.

"Come on lets go watch tv."

"Hey Dylan?" Rio pipped in when we were all alone in the tv room.

"Yeah?" He answered, not taking his eyes off the screen.

"Do you like anyone?" I watched as Dylan tensed up, he doesn't really like talking about his feelings.

"Uhm I don't know, maybe?" He said, scratching the back of his neck. Rio smiled real big and secretively kicked me.

"Who?" His eyes darted from me to Rio to the tv and back to Rio. "Gotcha." Rio saluted him. He turned his head to her.

"What? What do you mean gotcha?" She raised an eyebrow at him.

"I mean you don't wanna talk about it... duh." Dylan let out a breath.

"Oh ok." Rio bit her lip and smiled to herself. She pulled out her phone and sent me a text.

Yup. He likes you.

How do you know??

Body language duh.

Really? He sent off that much to you?????

Yup haha! And boooyyyy does he have it baaaaaaad for you!

Great.

Rio let out a laugh as she read the text and put away her phone. "What's so funny?" Dylan asked.

"Oh nothing just a text from a friend." I got up and left them to talk as I tried to find the kitchen.

"Someone's a little lost." I heard a voice say from behind me after about an hour of walking in circles.

I turned to see Nico, sweaty and shirtless. My heart dropped at the sight, then wheeled it self back up and picked up pace, I swear it was going to pop out of my chest.

"How do you know?" I asked in a shaky voice. He raised an eyebrow at me.

"Cause this is the gym. You don't work out." I looked away from the wet body and saw the gym door.

"Oh." He took a step closer to me, becoming very close to me. My heart started to race again.

"You know you're not very good at talking to your friends secretively." My heart stopped and my eyes got wide.

"Wha-what?" I stammered. He smirked and tucked a strand of hair behind my ear before leaning in and placing his mouth extremely close to my ear.

"I know Phoenix." He whispered slowly before walking away down the hall. I stood there in shock.

He freaking knows!

God I'm so stupid! Why would I talk about that kind of stuff knowing damn well his room is literally across the hall?

I fell against the wall and slid all the way to the cool tile floor, resting my head against the wall.

Nico knows. I texted Rio.